[clug] Vaguely off topic: iPeds and other Android tablets - availability and comparisons to that Apple one

[Sam Couter]

Robert Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Apple can claim some degree of innovation and invention with the
> Newton MessagePad, but after that mostly they are just incrementally
> developing what everyone else has been doing for ages.

Apple don't do innovation because they're not a tech company. They are a
marketing company and they do very sleek marketing. Their devices suck
for lots of reasons, their marketing is irrefutably very successful.

People joke about the Jobs reality distortion field but it's real. It's
nauseating and real.

> The main selling feature of the iPod/iPhone/iPad is the Apple iTunes
> store (hardly innovative).

That's a feature?

The main feature is they're trendy. That's all.

> Don't get me started on iPods. I bought my Diamond Rio500 over 10 years
> ago.

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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